Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cribbed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cribbed} (kr?bd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cribbing}.]
1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to
cramp.

If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
--I. Taylor.

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. --Shak.

2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to
appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from
Milton. [Colloq.]

Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
--Dickens.

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